When life gives you lemons: squeal like a tipsy pelican. These orbs of wonder were a housewarming party contribution, bless our friends and their tree. In the interests of making this a more blog-sexy pic, I briefly considered putting these babies into a basket, or getting a kitten to hold them or something, but they’re [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingSub-subtitle: GRAND AND GLORIOUS FINALE. Because I needed somewhere to put the finished product photos. When serving hummus, do sprinkle with salt, cracked pepper and drizzle with olive oil. It’s definitely the done thing.
Also tagged many words on hummusI would like to mention two extremely cool things I have encountered. My life, as I am sure I have mentioned from time to time, is supremely awesome. These cool things are just little out-shoots of awesome, like sparks that fly joyously upwards from the BONFIRE OF AWESOME that is my life. Cool thing the [...]
Also taggedLife — my life, let’s be clear — is fantastic right now. The bounty of summer, showering me in free fresh fruit since spring, has turned into figs. Fresh wild figs. Oh, I’m one happy blogger/knitter/eater/person/pantry wrangler. I’m so happy I could weep, but it’s so hard to weep when you’re kicking your heels up. [...]
Also tagged favourite thingsIt’s autumn and I’m stoked and the world keeps giving me fresh food. The other day, a coworker brought in the biggest damn bowl of cherry tomatoes I’ve ever seen — surplus from his crop. Those cherry tomatoes will haunt me in my dreams, as I weep through the tomato shortage of winter. I am [...]
Also tagged banging onIf you’ve been paying attention at all, you’ll have figured out by now that I’ve got a breakfast…thing. It’s not really a fetish. I mean, I don’t need a bowl of muesli near me to have an orgasm or anything. But, well, I think breakfast is bloody essential to overall health and happiness, and also [...]
Also tagged bakingOkay, am I mad, or is this an accurate assessment of language use: when people refer to “[X]-night cooking”, they nearly always mean to suggest that they are tired and don’t want to cook and therefore the recipe must be simple and near-immediate. (Also, where should the question mark go in that sentence? I’m pretty [...]
Also tagged banging onDudes! (Optimistic use of plural.) After weeks of digging up a lawn bed and turning soil and generally busting our arse muscles (not to mention alienating friends by suddenly having conversational interests confined entirely to compost and the gluteus maximus): M and I finally got our shit in one sock and planted a vegetable garden. [...]
Also tagged sproutyI would like to present a pictorial essay titled “A Call To Apricots”. I love apricots. They’re easily one of my favourite fruits and I don’t commit to that sort of prioritisation lightly. I love how little they are, I love their nubbly soft skin, and I love the easy way they surrender from their [...]
Also tagged bakingI like green, I like brown. I like brown a lot. Here’s some brown: just a quickie. Brown cake! Okay, I admit brown cake doesn’t photograph so well here. But the photo on the recipe page (linked below) should tell you volumes. Cardamom coffee zucchini cake. Holy shredded panty tassels, dudes, this cake is the bomb. [...]
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